Onel Pérez, president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Beef Exporters (Canicarne), noted that they expect to slaughter 650,000 animals in 2010, out of a maximum capacity of 1.1 million in the country's 4 processing plants.

Pérez remarked that 'certified slaughterhouses have made considerable investments to handle the expected increase'.

Source: elsalvador.com

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